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the abdomen are clothed with black hair as in the male. 

 The bind basitarsus is broad and flat, with the hair on its 

 inner side reddish chocolate, while that on the inner side of 

 the tibia is pale yellow like the rest of the pubescence. The 

 facial fovea? are extremely broad but short, pale ochreous, and 

 very conspicuous. Process of labrum deeply emarginate ; 

 flagellum ferruginous beneath except at base ; caudal fimbria 

 black. 



This is, of course, much like A. hirticincta, Prov., but 

 the facial foveas are broader, the wings are much clearer, 

 and the light hair of hind tibia? and black hair on abdomen 

 between the bands are quite distinctive. The proportions of 

 the antennal joints do not differ. 



Andrena dejipeano, sp. n. 



$ . — Length 10 mm. 



Head and thorax black, abdomen blue-green ; head ordinary, 

 facial quadrangle about square ; clypeus shining, with strong 

 sparse punctures, its margin dull, with close punctures ; 

 labrum shining, without a distinct process ; front dull ; ocelli 

 prominent; facial fovese black or fuscous, about half width 

 from eye to antenna, oblique, ending above close to (even 

 going a little behind level of) lateral ocelli, and below a little 

 above level of antenna;, very close to eye ; flagellum obscure 

 brownish beneath ; third antennal joint longer than the two 

 following united; mesothorax dull, with microscopically 

 tessellate surface and scattered hardly noticeable punctures, 

 but at sides, near to tegulse, more shining and more evidently- 

 punctured; disk of scuteilum smooth and shining; area of 

 metathorax dullish, granular, poorly defined ; hair of head 

 and thorax pale yellowish, black on posterior part of pleura, 

 dull whitish on sides of face, pale fuscous at sides of clypeus, 

 partly short and black on disk of scuteilum and posterior 

 part of mesothorax ; legs reddish black, with greyish-fuscous 

 hair, middle femora with a fringe of yellowish-white hair 

 beneath ; tegula? shining piceom. Wings strongly dusky, 

 with a reddish tint, region of marginal cell darker ; stigma 

 and nervures dark ferruginous ; fiist r. n. joining second 

 s.m. near middle ; abdomen with a sericeous surface, hardly 

 punctured, second segment in middle depressed less than a 

 third ; third and fourth segments with narrow but dense pale 

 ochreous apical hair-bands, and a little of the same at sides of 

 second; caudal fimbria pale ochreous. General aspect like 

 A. cundida, Smith, but larger, wilh shorter and less abundant 



